{"id":1673,"date":"2026-09-29T05:08:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2026-09-29T05:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:08:55","slug":"sexually-explicit-deepfake-sites-target-100-plus-politicians-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/09\/29\/sexually-explicit-deepfake-sites-target-100-plus-politicians-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bareen Media &#8211; A new study has found that 138 female politicians in European Union countries have been targeted with fake sexual images created or altered using artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study, by Agora Digitale Transformation, covered 22 EU countries. In total, 147 politicians were identified on websites linked to such images. Of those, 138 were women, and nine were men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study found that female politicians were about 33 times more likely than male politicians to be targeted by this type of content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lena Schilling, an Austrian member of the European Parliament, was among those identified in the study. She said she documented the material and reported it to Austrian police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the findings, members of the European Parliament\u2019s Greens group called for stronger enforcement of rules against tools that can create fake sexual images of people without their consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The findings have renewed concerns about the misuse of artificial intelligence to target women, damage their privacy and increase online abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bareen Media &#8211; A new study has found that 138 female politicians in European Union countries have been targeted with fake sexual images created or altered using artificial intelligence. The study, by Agora Digitale Transformation, covered 22 EU countries. In total, 147 politicians were identified on websites linked to such images. Of those, 138 were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[411,30,43,45],"tags":[131,415,322,417,196],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-union","category-politics","category-technology-and-science","category-womens-rights","tag-european-union","tag-fake-images","tag-online-abuse","tag-politicians","tag-womens-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1675,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions\/1675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}